Shekhman v. New York City Transit Authority

In an action to recover damages for libel and discrimination based on the plaintiffs national origin and religion, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Satterfield, J.), dated December 20, 1995, which granted the defendants’ cross motion to dismiss the complaint and denied as moot his motion for leave to file a late notice of claim.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff claims that the defendants committed libel when they published threatening statements that he allegedly made to a supervisor, for which he was suspended from his…